The Almanac of the Dead: A Novel

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Authors: Leslie Marmon Silko

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CONTENTS

PART ONE

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

BOOK ONE

TUCSON

Unanswered Questions
·
Exile
·
The Stone Idols
·
The Ranch

BOOK TWO

SAN DIEGO

TV Talk Show Psychic
·
Memories and Dreams
·
Flying
·
Storms
·
Decoy
·
Texas
·
Miracle Mile
·
The Stage Coach

BOOK THREE

SOUTHWEST

Famous Criminals
·
Business with Calabazas
·
In the Backseat of a Chrysler
·
Sterling’s Room
·
Hollywood Movie Crew
·
The Water Bed
·
Old Aunt Marie
·
Banished
·
Working for Lecha

BOOK FOUR

SOUTH

Abortion
·
Suicide
·
Art
·
Kidnapped

BOOK FIVE

THE BORDER

Childhood in Mexico
·
Cottonwood Trees
·
The Failed Geologist
·
Boarding School
·
Dried-up Corpse
·
Coyote Years
·
At War with the U.S. Government
·
The Indian Way
·
Yoeme’s Old Notebooks

BOOK SIX

THE NORTH

Locating the Dead
·
Lover’s Revenge
·
Daytime Television
·
Dogsled Racer
·
Tundra Spirits
·
Eskimo Television
·
Burning Children
·
Plane Crashes
·
Severed Heads
·
Sudden Retirement

BOOK SEVEN

WEST TUCSON

Root’s Grandpa Gorgon
·
Root’s Accident
·
Shallow Graves
·
Arms Dealer
·
Lust
·
Memories
·
Drop Points
·
Mother
·
The Weight of Ghosts
·
Falling Forever
·
Horse Races
·
Family
·
The Happy Ones
·
Tucson Witches
·
Homeless
·
Imaginary Lines

BOOK EIGHT

INDIAN COUNTRY

Resistance
·
Mistaken Identity
·
Old Pancakes
·
Wild Ones
·
Two Sisters
·
Gambling Debt
·
Marriage
·
The Monsignor
·
Journey of the Ancient Almanac

PART TWO

MEXICO

BOOK ONE

REIGN OF DEATH-EYE DOG

Mestizo
·
Universal Insurance
·
Tidal Wave
·
Arms and Munitions
·
Alegría
·
Iliana
·
Video Surveillance
·
Adultery
·
Marble Stairway
·
Love Tryst
·
High Risk
·
Exposed
·
High Command of the People’s Army
·
Air Force
·
Disgrace and Ruin
·
The Fall

BOOK TWO

REIGN OF FIRE-EYE MACAW

Terrorist Bombs
·
Communists
·
Comrade La Escapía and the Cuban
·
Vampire Capitalists
·
Crimes Against History
·
Bulletproof Vest
·
Reader of Dreams
·
General J.
·
El Grupo Gun Club
·
Strikes, Unrest, and Uprising
·
Blood Madness
·
Spirit Macaws
·
Police Interrogators

PART THREE

AFRICA

BOOK ONE

NEW JERSEY

Ambush
·
Wheelie
·
Blue Skies
·
Golf Game
·
Leah Blue
·
Desert Real Estate
·
Family Business
·
Marilyn
·
Change of Heart
·
Venice, Arizona
·
Steak-in-the-Basket
·
Diaries

BOOK TWO

ARIZONA

Bio-Materials, Inc.
·
Green Beret
·
Plasma Donors
·
Army of the Homeless
·
Vacant Houses
·
First Black Indian
·
Spirit Power
·
Ogou, the Knife
·
Creole Wild West Indians
·
Army of Justice
·
Liberation Radio Broadcasts

BOOK THREE

EL PASO

Sonny’s Secret Sideline
·
Brother’s Keeper
·
Organ Donors
·
Kill the Rich
·
.44 Magnum Has Puppies
·
Men in Love
·
Jamey Love
·
Cop Cakes or Nude Cop Pinups
·
Owls Club

PART FOUR

THE AMERICAS

BOOK ONE

MOUNTAINS

Angelita, aka La Escapía, the Meat Hook
·
Twin Boys
·
More Friends of the Indians
·
Wacah the Spirit Macaw Interprets Dreams
·
Swarms of Squatters
·
Village of Sorcerers and Cannibals
·
The Opal
·
Riots Worldwide
·
Sonny Blue and Alegría
·
Emperor Maximilian and Charlotte
·
Unease and Suspicion
·
Illegal Refugees
·
The Test
·
Work of the Spirits
·
The Heat Is On
·
Miracle of High Technology
·
How Capitalists Die
·
This Cuban Should Return to Cuba
·
Angelita La Escapía Explains Engels and Marx
·
Sexual Rivals
·
On Trial for Crimes Against Tribal Histories

BOOK TWO

RIVERS

Mr. Fish, the Cannibal
·
Sangre Pura
·
Alternative Earth Units
·
David’s Infant Son
·
Secret Agenda
·
Biological Warfare
·
Baby Pictures
·
Lawsuits
·
Games
·
Bad News
·
Rapture of the Plain

PART FIVE

THE FIFTH WORLD

BOOK ONE

THE FOES

From the Ancient Almanac
·
The Great Influenza of 1918
·
Old Yoeme’s Advice
·
Family Cemetery
·
Adiós, White Man!
·
Great Lord Iguana
·
Cocaine Glut
·
Communist Priests and Nuns
·
Souls of the Dead
·
One Who “Reads” Body Fat
·
Tucson, City of Thieves
·
Kilo of Cocaine
·
Barefoot Hopi
·
Close Call
·
A Series of Popes Had Been Devils
·
The Hopi Has Answers for Everything

BOOK TWO

THE WARRIORS

Getting Old
·
Dead British Poet at Yaqui Easter Dance
·
Tucson Police Brutality
·
Ambitions
·
Suitcases for Mr. B.
·
The Thursday Club
·
The Young Police Chief
·
Golf Game
·
Beloved Basset Hounds
·
Tucson’s Sex Mall

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